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  The Devil Light - Former soldier...

  Edgar Wallace

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  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London.  Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook.  
   
  By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the Infantry being posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur.  
   
  In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing. His first collection of ballads, The Mission that Failed! was enough of a success that in 1899 he paid his way out of the armed forces in order to turn to writing full time.  
   
  By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press. 
    
  In 1911 his Congolese stories were published in a collection called Sanders of the River, which became a bestseller. He also started his own racing papers, Bibury’s and R. E. Walton’s Weekly, eventually buying his own racehorses and losing thousands gambling.  A life of exceptionally high income was also mirrored with exceptionally large spending and debts.  
   
  Wallace now began to take his career as a fiction writer more seriously, signing with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921. He was marketed as the ‘King of Thrillers’ and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce. He was truly prolific, capable not only of producing a 70,000 word novel in three days but of doing three novels in a row in such a manner. It was estimated that by 1928 one in four books being read was written by Wallace, for alongside his famous thrillers he wrote variously in other genres, including science fiction, non-fiction accounts of WWI which amounted to ten volumes and screen plays. Eventually he would reach the remarkable total of 170 novels, 18 stage plays and 957 short stories. 
   
  Wallace became chairman of the Press Club which to this day holds an annual Edgar Wallace Award, rewarding ‘excellence in writing’.  
   
  Diagnosed with diabetes his health deteriorated and he soon entered a coma and died of his condition and double pneumonia on the 7th of February 1932 in North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills. He was buried near his home in England at Chalklands, Bourne End, in Buckinghamshire.

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  Condemned: Book 6

  Vasily Mahanenko

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  Maximilian Valevsky quite unexpectedly finds himself with spare time on his hands—time he can even devote to studying. Learning all the intricacies of runecraft, becoming Magister Meram's best pupil, and making his statement to the world! 
   
   
   
  It all sounds like a dream, but reality is quick to put him in his place. Padishah Bayazid the Third wants to personally meet with Maximilian and our hero will have to do unprecedented things just to survive. But could a former doomed soldier do it any other way?

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  Wapping Workhouse (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  WAPPING WORKHOUSE: My day's no-business beckoning me to the East-end of London, I had turned my face to that point of the metropolitan compass on leaving Covent-garden, and had got past the India House, thinking in my idle manner of Tippoo-Sahib and Charles Lamb, and had got past my little wooden midshipman.

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  Someone's There - A gripping...

  Diane Saxon

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  A gripping, unforgettable thriller featuring DS Jenna Morgan that will have you racing through the pages. 
  Who's stalking who? 
  When a beautiful, red-haired nurse’s body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all eyes turn to him. 
  But with a very specific modus operandi, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan and her team know exactly who the offender is. The trouble is, he’s currently serving a life stretch in HMP Long Lartin. 
  It soon becomes evident to DS Morgan and her team that there may be a copycat killer on the loose, one who may be taking his pleasure in stalking his victims first. 
  In a race against time, they need to track down the copycat and discover: who is pulling whose strings? 
  A high-adrenaline psychological crime novel, perfect for fans of Cara Hunter. 
  Praise for Diane Saxon: 
  'A complex, dark and disturbing thriller, full of intrigue, toxic relationships and jaw-dropping twists' Alex Stone 
  'An unputdownable, tense, fast-paced, terrifying plot that deftly twists and turns' Danielle Ramsay 
  ‘An intensely dark thriller’ Ross Greenwood 
  'Packed full of secrets and lies, and in a town filled with an unsettling atmosphere, Saxon succeeds in putting the ‘creep’ in creepy' Valerie Keogh 
  'A dark, unsettling read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. I couldn’t stop turning the pages' Sarah Ward 
  Please note: This book was previously published as Copycat.

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  Heartless

  Tiye

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  MY NEW, IRRESISTIBLY SEXY BOSS WANTS ME. I WANT REVENGE. 
   
   
   
  Dear Lipstick, 
   
   
   
  I've fallen for the enemy. An enemy in every sense of the word. He stole my promotion. He's an overbearing control freak. And he once hurt someone I loved. I hate him. Well, I used to hate him. I relentlessly pursued him with ulterior motives to destroy him. 
   
   
   
  Now . . . now he imbues my every waking breath. 
   
   
   
  He's seeped through the crevices of my frozen heart, which I once thought an impossible feat. My friends have all found love and waiting for me to claim the same. But what I feel for Adonis is twisted and dark. Maybe that's the only type of love I'm capable of. He begs to differ. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Night Terrors Short Stories to...

  Maraya Ashworth

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  Costume Party 
  A student falls for the perfect guy but gets a shock when she catches him saying goodbye to an old relationship. When she breaks it off, things take a dark turn as he struggles with the rejection. Kidnapped and made to put on a show, can Maria escape her psychotic captor? 
    
  The Devil on The Dance Floor 
  A serial killer is on the hunt for his next delicious treat. In his desperation for a sweet companion, he strays from his usual plans to lure someone to his house. What happens when he discovers that his next victim was friends with the last one? 
    
  Coming for Me 
  Sarah's husband left her months ago and their last encounter didn't end on great terms. Now she's living alone, a stalker has taken it upon themselves to torment her. Struggling at work and in need of sleep, she does what she can to carry on as normal. Until the stranger gets too close to her mum and she can't take it anymore.  
    
  Risky Research 
  There is no way vampires are real. But if they are, Joy must learn everything she can about them, no matter how unethical her means of learning are. How far would they go to protect their own and stop her research from getting published? 
    
  New Friends, New Sins 
  Megan is a quiet girl. She can't wait to leave school and go to college where she can meet like-minded people. For now though, she is stuck at a sleepover with her bullies because her mum wanted her to make some friends. A game of truth or dare reveals troubling secrets and the evening goes awry when Rachel produces a Ouija board from her bag. Can the girls survive an evening of summoning spirits and messing with the devil? 
   

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